Youtube: the perfect place for auditory learners
Auditory learners, listen up. You need to hear what you you can do with YouTube. If the words from a textbook do not stick in your head and your teacher does not spoon-feed information, there is only so much you can do. YouTube videos are one of those things.
Without this channel and the teacher who runs it, I would probably have failed AP US History (APUSH). There is a lot of information to remember for every chapter in the textbook. Sure, the book goes into detail, but there is so much to remember that reading just once would never help those who do not learn visually.
The person in charge of this channel is an APUSH teacher in California, so there is no need to worry about the information presented, or how accurate it is. Every video is a power point that he explains as he goes through. He talks about every point, every little detail that you might ever need to know, both for the actual APUSH test in May and any test that you might be taking in class.
He also likes to make corny jokes, so the videos are not too boring or bland. Each slide includes pictures, words, little monikers to help remember everything. The visual effects are pretty entertaining too. Each chapter video is anywhere between 15 and 20 minutes, which does not take up too much of your basically nonexistent time.
If this channel and these videos did not exist, I would have had to come up with memory tricks all by myself.
This channel is essentially a whole year of any class, from psychology to physics, in a series of videos.
They have videos about anything and everything related to the subject. If there is something you do not understand, this channel is almost always the best place to go.
The five to 15 minute fast-paced videos are usually one of five guys, including Hank and John Green, creators of the channel, sitting in a chair, making references to movies and corny jokes that no one but teachers of the subject will ever get, and talking really fast about whatever you need help with. There are also some cutesy animations and clip art that try to explain the topic.
There are videos about the intricacies of government and how the brain works, the conflict between Israel and Palestine, and the history of film.
These videos are quick and directly to the point and live up to the channel name. They really are a crash course on anything possible.
There is no way to avoid confusing novels. Books written in a disjoint narrative or in complicated speech patterns seem to be the only ones assigned by English teachers. If reading one of these books leaves you baffled, fear no more. Thug Notes is here to help.
Thug Notes is almost better than Sparknotes- a ‘gangster’ sitting in a thrown, explaining not only the plot of the novel but also analyzing it in three to ten minutes. It gets even better by the wise jokes he cracks and the foul language he throws in.
“Thug Notes discusses literature in words that anyone can understand,” writes Keri Lumm, freelance writer for pastemagazine.com. “[It] gives you the education of Cliffsnotes in addition to humor and illustrations.”
This “original gangster” clarifies classic literature, anything from Homer’s Odyssey to One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, like no one else on the internet. He even has an entire playlist dedicated to Shakespeare, which goes further than no fear Shakespeare and is much more entertaining.
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